Mr Mohammed Adjei Sowah,AMA boss
Beneficiary communities of the World Bank funded sanitation project may pay the full cost for toilets and water facilities by May or June 2019, if government does not receive additional funding from the bank.
This is because the 150 million dollar funding earmarked for the provision of 19,100 subsidised household toilets and clean drinking water may be exhausted in the next three or four months time.
Ing George Asiedu, Project Coordinator of Greater Accra Metropolitan Area Sanitation and Water Project (GAMA-SWP) announced this when he handed over two institutional toilets to Manhean Primary and Junior High School on Friday.
He said beneficiaries are required to register on a Tigo mobile money platform and pay GH¢1,100 to own a toilet.
The project seeks to improve sanitation in middle income communities within 24 assemblies in the Greater Accra Region.
Ing Asiedu, therefore, urged them to take advantage to register and own a descent toilet facility.
So far, 17,200 out of the 19,100 household toilet facilities had been constructed under the GAMA-SWP which was started in 2015.
For water supply, the project laid 245.27 kilometres pipelines, connecting 4,642 households.
The GAMA-SWP being implemented by the Project Coordinating Unit of the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources would end next year.
It is recalled that Ghana became the talk of the world few years ago, because of poor sanitation practices and in spite of efforts to end open defecation, some people still engage in the age-long practice.
Ghana is a signatory to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which, among other things, enjoin member states to make deliberate effort to improve basic sanitation.
Importantly, SDG 6 not only addresses the issues relating to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, but also the quality and sustainability of water resources worldwide.
Currently, about eight million Ghanaians have access to improved environmental sanitation, leaving a deficit of 22 million people without access to clean water and good toilet facilities.
Little success has been achieved by successive governments to provide toilets to the people and rid the country of filth, but on his assumption of office, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo declared his intention to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa by the end of his term in government.
BY MALIK SULLEMANA
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